If the Signature button is greyed out completely, it could have been disabled by Group Policy. This is only likely when your company has configured the mail server to automatically generate and add signatures to your emails. In this case, it is best to contact your support department to verify if that is indeed the case. Select the font you want to change. New mail messages - Sets the default font for original messages you compose. Replying or forwarding messages - You can have a different font on messages you're forwarding or replying to. This setting is mostly for the two check boxes that let you mark your comments with your name (or other text) or with a. Bold Font Greyed Out In Outlook 6/27/2019 1 Comment Like other Microsoft Office programs, Outlook 2013 allows you to change much of the formatting for text that you type. You can in the Outlook Mail settings change 1) the Plain Text font and options like bold and save that. That currently seems not to work, only in the sample text below the Setting, not in the actual 1) Plain text message composition, it is however reflected if you switch to 2) HTML composition.
Problem Summary
When you are replying to an email you received in Outlook, you may find that the size of the font in the message you are typing is so small that you can barely see what you have typed, even though the font size in your tool bar has not changed.
This has happened to me when the size of my font is at 11 in the tool bar, but any message I type when replying to an email is like font size 6. Many people have tried increasing their Outlook font size in reply mode up to size 18 or 20, just so they can read what they are typing, but only to find out to their dismay that when they send the message without reducing the font back to the normal setting, the recipients of their reply get the message in VERY large size 18 or 20 font!
The fix for Outlook font size when it changes to very small size when you are replying to an email is really very simple, and I have summarized it below. The Zoom factor in the Reply Mode is what you need to increase to 100%.
The Fix for Outlook Font Size Change in Reply Mode
Bold Font Greyed Out In Outlook Email
In Outlook Reply Mode:
- Hold down the “Ctrl” key on your keyboard
- If you are using a mouse with a scroll wheel, scroll the wheel up or down to increase the Zoom to 100%
- Or, while holding the “Ctrl” key down, pinch the mouse pad on your laptop in or out to get 100% Zoom factor.
This should fix your font changing to very small size when you are replying to an email in Outlook. This fix also works if your Outlook font in Reply Mode has increased, just reduced it to 100% with the same steps.
The key combination you may have to press to get 100% font Zoom factor may differ on your laptop. I have tested this fix on a Dell laptop running Windows 10.
If you find that a different key/Mouse combination works for you, please share it here so others can benefit.
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With microsoft outlook, you click on “new” email, and start composing a new email. You fill in the subject and email recipient.
But when you get to writing the body of the email, you notice that the text formatting buttons are mostly greyed out (eg bold, underline, italics, cut, copy, paste, font size, font color, paragraph justification, bullets and numbering, indenting).
Bold Font Greyed Out In Outlook Settings
The solution is actually quite straightforward:
Bold Font Greyed Out In Outlook Shortcut
In the main email window (the one with the inbox on it):
Bold Font Greyed Out In Outlook Address Book
tools -> options -> mail format -> compose in this message format: HTML